- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4499
Condliffe, Colleen Mary
- Occupation Community stalwart, Farmer, Local government councillor
Summary
Colleen Condliffe runs a farm with her husband at Salisbury West, in central Victoria. She was a regional winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year award in 1997. In 2009 she was honoured with inclusion on the Victorian honour roll for women.
Colleen has an impressive record of community involvement. She has contributed to the development committee for the Breakfast in Schools Program, is a member of the Country Women’s Association and has joined numerous farming bodies including Victorian Farmers Federation. She was the first woman elected to Loddon Shire Council, serving for nine years on a diverse range of committees. She formed the Landcare group at Salisbury West and organised the 1997 Women on Farms Gathering at Bendigo. In 2002 she represented Australia at the third World Congress for Rural Women, held in Spain.
In her local community, she is well known for her role in establishing Australia Help, an organisation that delivers assistance, particularly food, to families in need.
Events
- 1997
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2009
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Condliffe, Colleen, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477551
- Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2009, Victorian Office for Women, 2009, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/GraphicFiles/Victorian+Honour+Roll+of+Women+2009/$file/Honour+Roll+2009+web+update+PDF.pdf
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Resource Section
- 1997 ABC Victoria Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/vic.htm
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Site Exhibition
- Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html